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Influential departments for the first time since george h.w. bushs incoming administration. >> certainly a cabinet with the highest i.q. >> reporter: its the process for the tillerson selection and trumps interior secretary choice, montana congressman ryan zinke that is bringing up the conflict of interest questions trump was supposed to address this week. instead postponing that until january. sources tell cnn donald and eric trump have been involved throughout the cabinet selection process. th...

Start off. who do you think its going to be? >> i dont think we know. it has become kind of the symbolic flashpoint of this cabinet selection process by donald trump, which has mixed appointments that no one else would have made, particularly in the white house with general mike flynn as national security advisor and steve bannon as a senior advisor. hard to imagine any other republican making those choices with a number of other choices. you can imagine nikki haley in other republican cabinets....

So i think you can surmise from that mitt romney is among the final four along with rudy giuliani, general petraeus and tennessee senator bob corker as well. i think well see that play out. the other part of it is, you just played that sound. that was not an apology from mitt romney but it was an acknowledgement that trump has succeeded where romney has not which is something perhaps the president-elect wanted to hear. >> to your punking point, if this is a punking, mitt romney will be punking h...

And just as unconventional as his approach is with the media, has been his cabinet selection process. its been sort of like an episode of cabinet apprentice. weve seen a number of cabinet prospects parading in front of the cameras all day long, even a few surprises were there. tulsi gabbard, the democratic congresswoman from hawaii, showed up to talk to trump about some potential cabinet positions. we even had newt gingrich adding to the drama over who will be secretary of state, talking up rudy...

To make a cabinet and staffing announcement. well see if anything emerges in the course of the next few hours. our political correspondents and experts have been working their stories. sources, i should say, spent a lot of time this week and apparently tweeting how mike pence was treated after attending the broadway musical "hamilton," and the critics are saying should he really be focusing in on that or much more important issues? what are you hearing from sources close to the president-elect? ...

Social media, released just tonight. now, cnns jim acosta live at trump tower. jim, this statement from donald trump, which just bypasses the media, delivers the statement with no questions asked, is this something do you think that were going to see from donald trump going forward? >> i think so, john. keep in mind, donald trump has bypassed the news media to a large extent already. we are now 13 days after the election, he has not held a news conference with the news media. president obama, fo...